The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-10-05

| Oxford and the other half in spnno-t;ro
TEN ACADEMIES SITUATED N orFrKRFSr p.RTs
OF THE STATE and that these should be unde,
the same control as the University. He
argued and 1 think eonclusively, that this
would be no diversion of the fund from 8
Seminary of Learning that as it was no;
necessary all the teaching should be under
| one root HIS recommendation as to theS5O.-
UO0 was carried outby the Legislature. but as
1t has since turned out, it was a misfortune
to the State,-the children within her bor-
ders-that the whole of his plan was not
adopted. If il had been. we wouId have
PAID far less than we have paid; there would
De now no enormous demands for still fur-
ther Indebtedness; and the blessings of
education coming from the fund would
have been more equally diffused II the
State had paid what she has paid, the debt
as proposed to be recognized by Gov.
Brown would long since have been wiped
(see Table 81 and overpaid.
thus falls to the ground the attempt to
enlist the great and venerated name of
Albert Gallatin Brown in support of this
unjust demand now set up by the Univer-
sity. In rejecting on this recommended
ton OF Gov. Brown, l am afresh reminded
OF his greatness, his political sagacity, his
sense of justice, and his devotion to the
interest of the great mass of the people.
These qualities won for him their conf
uence and their affection. They gave him
the title of the Friend of the People, and
AZ the same time those few choice and Sc
iect spirits who. removed from contact with.
and sympathy for, their less favored coun-
trymena themselves incapable of feeling any
interest in the toiling masses, deeming all
such profession of, and action based on such
interest, false and hollow, were pleased to
call him a demagogue.
am glad of this opportunity of remov-
ing from the name and memory of Albert
Gallatin Brown the reproach of having, by
word or deed, given sanction to this unjust
and illegal demand now set up in behalf of
the University, against the taxpayers of
the State; for there never was truer,
nobler or more devoted servant of the peo-
pie of Mississippi; and there was no abler
one, unless we except his grand colleague
in the United States Senate, CLARUM ET
VENERABLE NoMEN, who yet is spared to
suffer and struggle with his countrymen.
And now, on the shores of that sea which
washes our Southern border, passes the
closing years of his life in calm serenity,
and sustained by the love and admiration
of his cOuntrymen is undisturbed by the
assaults upon his fame of those who hate
him only because they hate the cause and
the people he served so Well Happy is he
who in the evening of stormy and event
full life, has no other enemies than those
who are also the enemies of his people; and
who, as he approaches the dark river, is
cheered by the heartfelt plaudits of his
countrymen decreeing irreversibly his i'm
mortality here.
1t will be noted that Gov. Brown, in his
message dated July 6, lS46, two years and
one-half after the passage of the act of
1843, did not consider that the 11th section
of that act, embraced in any way the amount
lost by the Planters Bank, or, as is now in
sisted on in the University pamphlet, that
it was "a clear and emphatic acknowledge
ment'' of the States liability for the whole
Seminary fund.